[124]. As the ship conveying the Queen of France and the Duchess d’Angoulême and suite passed Admiral Russell’s fleet, “the gallant veteran saluted the illustrious visitors with a royal salute.” Her Majesty landed at Harwich on the 29th August.
[125]. In the Annual Register for 1809, this inscription is ascribed to her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth.
[126]. The anecdotes relating to Boswell were given to Miss Knight by Mrs. Piozzi.
[127]. This is also stated in the Autobiography, vol. i. page 19.
[128]. This anecdote is related on the authority of Baron Wrangel, and is also mentioned in Wraxall’s “Memoirs of his own Time.” It was said that this “Russian lady of high rank” was a daughter of the Empress Elizabeth by Alexis Ragumofsky, and that the English Consul, Mr. John Dick, assisted Count Alexis Orloff in luring her on board the Russian fleet. But Mr. Kelly states that she was “an adventurer who called herself Countess Tarakanoff: he allured her on board his ship and sent her to Petersburg.”—History of Russia, vol. ii. p. 57.
[129]. “You cardinals want to give us the go-by in everything.”
THE END.
C. WHITING, BEAUFORT HOUSE, STRAND.
- Transcriber’s Notes:
- Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
- Typographical errors were silently corrected.
- Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book.